User talk:Tspofford

Your submission at Articles for creation: William B. Spofford (bishop) (July 27)
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'''Potato Ninja (Talk to me!) 07:23, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: William B. Spofford (bishop) has been accepted
 William B. Spofford (bishop), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created. The article has been assessed as Stub-Class, which is recorded on the article's talk page. You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article. You are more than welcome to continue making quality contributions to Wikipedia. . Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Happy Squirrel (talk) 01:50, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
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A belated welcome!
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Again, welcome! Happy Squirrel (talk) 01:51, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Possible COI
Hello, I have re-reviewed and accepted your article. Congratulations! I noticed your username was similar to the article title. If you are related to Rev. Spofford, you should mention this on the article's talk page just to be above board. This is because family members often feel strongly about their relatives, which is great, but can affect how they react and write on Wikipedia. You can read wp:COI for more details. By the way, you did well to use the AfC process to allow others to comment on your work. Don't hesitate to ask me any questions. Happy editing! Happy Squirrel (talk) 01:55, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Navigation and internal communications
Because it's a Wiki, I guess, this is very different from the document management systems I've used in the past although I'm starting to grasp, more intuitively than anything, the general concept but I'm still more or less in the dark about how to have a dialog with another user or editor. For example, I have 3 messages from "happysquirrel" that I very much appreciate but I don't know how to respond. (I don't see a "response" or similar link. Can somebody give me (or point me to) some Wikipedia Talk for Dummies bullets? Tspofford (talk) 17:14, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

WP:POTENTIALCOI
Yes, it's a potential conflict. I'm eldest son and de facto biographer (see http://spof.org). I was very cognizant of that as I wrote the article and omitted factual statements that, even though I know them to be true, I couldn't objectively document. Is this where I would/should have recorded the PCI?

Thanks for the cookies!!! Tspofford (talk) 17:20, 28 July 2015 (UTC) This is being posted on your Talk page where you can receive messages from other Wikipedians and discuss issues and respond to questions. At the end of each message you will see a signature left by the editor posting. This is done by signing with four  ~  or by pressing or  in the editing interface tool box, located just above the editing window (when editing). Do not sign edits that you make in the articles themselves as those messages will be deleted, but only when using the article talkpage, yours or another editor's talkpage. If you have any questions or face any initial hurdles, feel free to contact me on my talk page and I will do what I can to assist or give you guidance.

Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 17:36, 28 July 2015 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 17:36, 28 July 2015 (UTC)